The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 20-23Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1866 - Baptists |
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... night school , and took her seat amongst the grown - up people . She had not long been seated , however , before low murmurs began to spread amongst the boys in the back seats ; and some of them , pointing to the old woman , whispered ...
... night school , and took her seat amongst the grown - up people . She had not long been seated , however , before low murmurs began to spread amongst the boys in the back seats ; and some of them , pointing to the old woman , whispered ...
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... night school in my new neighbourhood , sir , and had a curious surprise a few weeks ago . Just after I had opened school , a young man entered . He was dressed in a respectable black coat and waistcoat , and had on a silver watch- chain ...
... night school in my new neighbourhood , sir , and had a curious surprise a few weeks ago . Just after I had opened school , a young man entered . He was dressed in a respectable black coat and waistcoat , and had on a silver watch- chain ...
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... night , our morning star , our sun of righteousness ! Jesus ! at the mention of whose name ' every knee shall bow and every tongue confess ! " Thy name is our most transporting theme , as we sing going up from the valley of tears to our ...
... night , our morning star , our sun of righteousness ! Jesus ! at the mention of whose name ' every knee shall bow and every tongue confess ! " Thy name is our most transporting theme , as we sing going up from the valley of tears to our ...
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... NIGHT THERE . HERE there is darkness , Sadness and gloom , Sorrow and sighing , Death and the tomb . There ever shineth Day without night , Unfolding new glories , Bright and more bright . O what a change From this night of sin ! How my ...
... NIGHT THERE . HERE there is darkness , Sadness and gloom , Sorrow and sighing , Death and the tomb . There ever shineth Day without night , Unfolding new glories , Bright and more bright . O what a change From this night of sin ! How my ...
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... night of winter is to me a most solemn night . Man takes his night out of every twenty - four hours ; and vegetation needs to sleep as much as men . And as through all the spring and summer and autumn they sleep not , but work ...
... night of winter is to me a most solemn night . Man takes his night out of every twenty - four hours ; and vegetation needs to sleep as much as men . And as through all the spring and summer and autumn they sleep not , but work ...
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Page 109 - and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; 'God...
Page 59 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 47 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 112 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 87 - Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may thy service be ? — Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, But simply following Thee.
Page 60 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work...
Page 108 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 139 - OF all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come thronging, Which one was e'er so dear, so kind, So beautiful as Longing ? The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real...
Page 63 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide? " In His feet and hands are woundprints, And His side.
Page 75 - PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe.